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 MICHAEL GENDREAU + VICKI BENNETT/PLU +
The first of Fall’s two Optronica programs mobilizes an international avant garde of media-performance: London-based Vicki(People Like Us) Bennett is here to premiere her single channel special edit Citation City with kindred spirit Michael Gendreau. As synth ensemble audre, Gendreau and Jorge Bachmann joyfully surf the phase-froth from two Invisible Manmovies!! ALSO: Bennett‘s trippy Zoom, Semiconductors‘ 20 Hz, former Frisco duo Matmos, John Warren’s In Colors, a Quintron cameo…and a video memoir to dear friend Owen O’Toole, late of Wetgate. $8.88

ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there!

The first Thursday of every month we have an Open Screening. An Open Screening is where we invite local filmmakers to show their short subject films (under 15 mins.). It is a free event and you can either screen a film or just be a member of the audience. Either way it is FREE. It is a great place to network, if you are a filmmaker, crew member, actor or a fan of local films. Please let us know if you would like to screen something. We love films and would love to see yours.

Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length. Mail to: Open Screening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110.  1-2 weeks advance submissions strongly recommended. If not, just walk in before the show. Maximum length: 15 min. Formats: Digital File (PC or Mac),  DVD, miniDV/DV-cam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm. For 8mm and 16mm films give us advance notice.

Door opens at 7

contact: programming@atasite.org

An evening of audiovisual improvisations with Carl Ludwig Hübsch (tuba), James Fei (reeds), Bill Hsu (video, electronics), Matt Ingalls (clarinets)

Since 1990 tubaist Carl Ludwig Hübsch has lived in Cologne. He composes and performs in concert halls, studios and theatres lending his talents to ensembles and orchestras. He`s well known for his unique solo concerts. He now concentrates on Improvised Music and Composition. He also leads Workshops for tuba and improvisation. http://www.clhuebsch.de

James Fei has since been active as a composer and performer on saxophones and live electronics. His recordings can be found on Leo Records, Improvised Music from Japan, CRI, Krabbesholm and Organized Sound. Fei received the Grants for Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2014. He has taught at Mills College in Oakland since 2006, where he is Associate Professor of Electronic Arts. http://www.jamesfei.com

Bill Hsu works with electronics and interactive animations. He teaches and does research at San Francisco State University. http://unixlab.sfsu.edu/~whsu/art.html

Reviled for his “shapeless sonic tinkering” by the Los Angeles Times, Oakland musician Matt Ingalls is a composer, clarinetist, concert producer, and computer music programmer. Often incorporating elements of improvisation, his music is heavily influenced by his long involvement in computer music. Matt is the founder and co-director of sf Sound, a new music series, ensemble, and internet radio station devoted to new ideas and traditions of experimental music, performance art, live electronic music, Bay Area composition, and the various facets of contemporary improvisation.